The Copenhagen Meeting, 4–7 October 2012

Annual Meeting Sessions Joint Opening Plenary with Tensions of Europe Network (ToE): Transnationalism and the History of Technology: Lessons from ToE and Other Projects Chair: Phil Scranton, Rutgers University Panelists: Johan Schot, Eindhoven Technical University and University of Twente; Eden Medina, Indiana University; Suzanne Moon, University of Oklahoma Nation, State, and Sociotechnical Imaginaries in Cold War Asia and Beyond Organizer: Projit Bihari Mukharji, University of Pennsylvania Chair and Commentator: Itty Abraham, University of Texas at Austin Papers: "Technology and Poverty: Exploring Sociotechnical lmaginaries of Justice in Indonesian Popular Culture," SuzanneMoon, University of Oklahoma; "Negotiating Competing Sociotechnical Imaginaries between Taiwanese Technologists and United Nations Officials: A ColdWar Technical-Aid Program in Electronics Science and Digital Electronic Computing, 1958-64," Honghong Tinn, Asia Research Institute and Tembusu College, National University of Singapore; "Agrotech, Petrotech, Infotech: The Changing Sociotechnical Imaginaries of Popular Bangladeshi Technostatism, 1966-90," Projit Bihari Mukharji, University of Pennsylvania IndigenousWater Control Regimes in Nineteenth-Century East and Southeast Asia Organizer and Chair: Philip Brown, Ohio State University Commentator: Vincent Lagendijk, University of Leiden, Netherlands Papers:"Mapping and ControllingWaterways: A Nexus of Historical Geography and Hydraulic Engineering in Early Modern China, 1780-1820," Minghui Hu, University of California, Santa Cruz; "The Twain Meet: Japan's Encounter with Western Civil Engineering on the Shinano River, 1870-1930," Philip Brown, Ohio State University; "'To Meet the Desire of the Population':Water Distribution Arrangements on Colonial Java, 1880-1920,"Maurits Ertsen, DelftUniversity of Technology, Netherlands Technological Heritage Chair: HåkonWith Andersen, Trondheim University, Norway Papers: "Ambiguous Technology: Reflections on Artifacts in Museum Contexts," Artemis Yagou, Free University Amsterdam, Netherlands; "Landscape Scars: Contested Heritage Processes at Ignalina and Barsebäck Nuclear Power Plants," Anna Storm, Södertörn University, Stockholm, Sweden; "Industrial Spaces as Patterns of Production and Distribution," Torben Dam and Svava Riesto, University of Copenhagen, Denmark Digital Aesthetics Chair and Commentator: Merritt Roe Smith, MIT Papers: "Beautifully Disturbing: Microcinematography and Title Design in Co